Contempt citations recommended for full House vote AFTER THE FRIGGIN' RECESS?

goddam it to hell (and, yes, i'm feeling VERY SHRILL!)...! we sit here and decry the iraqi parliament for taking august off and, while our constitution is in flames, our congress does the same exact goddam friggin' thing...

In a 22-17 vote, the House Judiciary Committee approved “a Resolution and Report Recommending to the House of Representatives that Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten be cited for Contempt of Congress.” The AP reports, “a vote by the full House would most likely happen after Congress’ August recess.”

FORGET THE F*****G RECESS!
STICK TO YOUR JOBS AND PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTION!

besides, if you go into recess, bush is just going to slip through a big pile of recess appointments anyway...

GET A FREAKIN' CLUE, CONGRESS!
THE COUNTRY IS AT STAKE!

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Beware the July 4th recess (appointments)

the 4th of july congressional recess starts tomorrow...

from the wapo...

There's no constitutional definition of how long a Senate recess must be before the president can make an appointment, and the length has shrunk dramatically in recent years.

"Even a Sunday fishing trip counts as a recess these days," Light joked. "The Senate is losing its authority to confirm presidential appointees through recess," he said, a situation that would have the Framers "spinning in their graves."

what's happening with harry reid's strategy to not have congressional recesses...?

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One way of rebalancing the balance of powers is to kill those goddam recess appointments

and reducing the frequency of THIS...



i wish reid had put this in place BEFORE the last three were slipped through in april...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a little trick up his sleeve that could spell an end to President Bush's devilish recess appointments of controversial figures like former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton. We hear that over the long August vacation, when those types of summer hires are made, Reid will call the Senate into session just long enough to force the prez to send his nominees who need confirmation to the chamber. The talk is he will hold a quickie "pro forma" session every 10 days, tapping a local senator to run the hall. Senate workers and Republicans are miffed, but Reid is proving that he's the new sheriff in town.

i know hindsight is 20-20, but this should have been implemented immediately upon congress convening in january and at least attempted prior to that...

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Opposing a criminal president is "wasting time...?"

ya, right... and standing up for the balance of powers as set forth in the u.s. constitution is obviously a fool's errand as well...

"Once the Democrats figure out how they want to waste time on this, Senator McConnell will decide how to respond," Jon Henke, a spokesman for McConnell, told RAW STORY in an e-mail. "If the Democrats want to waste some time in a pointless personal fight about the Ambassador to Belgium, I’d only note that recess appointments are very common and we don’t recall Democrats citing this law when President Clinton made similar recess appointments."

"a pointless personal fight..." the garbage that issues from the mouths of these enablers is truly astounding, and OF COURSE, bill clinton MUST BE invoked...

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Bushco - throwing red meat to the base or fighting to the death?

on the one hand, you can characterize the recess appointments as a masterstroke of idiocy, but i think this characterization is probably closer to the mark...

The recess appointments helped put the White House where it likes to be: in a robust fight with the Democrats that even the president’s most dispirited backers can get excited about. As one administration official put it, “It allows us to get our footing back, at least, on issues that resonate with the public.”

it may resonate with SOME of the public, but for those of us who are paying attention, it's just more of the same - totally over-the-top arrogance designed to sidestep any accountability and to neuter the balance of powers... and, although i'm getting tired of posting this excerpt, we must not forget the fact that the bush administration laid out the plan they're now following BEFORE the november elections...

In fact, when it comes to deploying its Executive power, which is dear to Bush's understanding of the presidency, the President's team has been planning for what one strategist describes as "a cataclysmic fight to the death" over the balance between Congress and the White House if confronted with congressional subpoenas it deems inappropriate. The strategist says the Bush team is "going to assert that power, and they're going to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court on every issue, every time, no compromise, no discussion, no negotiation."

in that light, i think it's less about playing to the base as it is another naked demonstration of unilateral executive power, just to remind all of us who's REALLY boss...

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Not once, not twice, THRICE - in ONE DAY! This guy's gotta be stopped!

oferchrissake... i posted earlier today on bush's sneaky recess appointment of susan dudley to head the white house office of information and regulatory affairs who is committed to a pro-business agenda and has been opposed by many progressive groups... now, i see he's slipped through TWO MORE... what a guy...!

President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination.

Democrats had denounced Fox for his 2004 donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group's TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his military record in Vietnam, were viewed as a major factor in the Massachusetts Democrat losing the election.

Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.

This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.

Bush also used his recess appointment authority to make Andrew Biggs deputy director of Social Security. The president's earlier nomination of Biggs, an outspoken advocate of partially privatizing the government's retirement program, was rejected by Senate Democrats in February.

the arrogance of this guy in thwarting the will of congress and the american people will go down in history as one of the darkest periods of u.s. history...

(thanks to markos...)

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"Neither snow nor rain not heat nor gloom of night stays" George Bush from giving us the finger

out-of-control president... dictator... monarch... despot... strongman... somehow none of these captures the nightmarish horror that the bush presidency has become... he's being attacked from all sides, but that won't stop him from running the country right into the ground... he and his criminal posse must be removed because this kind of shit just is not going to stop until that happens...

President Bush intends to bypass the Senate in order to name a "conservative academic" to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Wednesday's Wall Street Journal reports.

"Bypassing a reluctant Senate, President Bush will use a recess appointment to name a conservative academic to the White House's top regulatory post," Henry Pulizzi writes for WSJ. "The move, expected to be announced today, will fill a position that has been vacant for more than a year, and could help the White House use the regulatory process to shape policy."

According to the paper, "Susan Dudley, the former head of regulatory studies at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, has generated opposition from environmentalists and liberal interest groups, who say she would carry out a pro-business agenda at the expense of public health and safety."

as i've said before, it's not as if we weren't warned, all the way back in october, even BEFORE the elections...

In fact, when it comes to deploying its Executive power, which is dear to Bush's understanding of the presidency, the President's team has been planning for what one strategist describes as "a cataclysmic fight to the death" over the balance between Congress and the White House if confronted with congressional subpoenas it deems inappropriate. The strategist says the Bush team is "going to assert that power, and they're going to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court on every issue, every time, no compromise, no discussion, no negotiation."

and, if that didn't make it clear, tony snow certainly did when he said this...

"He told all of us, 'Put on your track shoes. We're going to run to the finish,'" Snow said. "He's going to be aggressive on a lot of fronts. He's been calling all his Cabinet secretaries and telling them, 'You tell me administratively everything you can do between now and the end of the presidency. I want to see your to-do list and how you expect to do it.' We're going to try to be as ambitious and bold as we can possibly be."

the only thing i can see at this point is to bring an END to bush's presidency... of course, that's about all i have been able to see for several years now, but it's never been more critical than it is now...

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